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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Angwenyi",
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        "legal_name": "Jimmy Nuru Ondieki Angwenyi",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, maybe we are late now, but in the next Report, we must make three major recommendations. One of them is to create a committee on assurance and implementation. Secondly, we must recommend that the Treasury tables its memoranda and reports to the House urgently once it is given a report by the Controller and Auditor-General. Thirdly, we must ensure that the committee gives periodic reports regarding the recommendations made and adopted by this House. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, my friend talked about the issue of pending bills. But, maybe, some of those firms whose money may have been withheld wrongly, should be handled with dispatch. Maybe, we should extend that mandate to the Public Accounts Committee (PAC). It should go through those pending bills. It can even hire a consultant to go through them on its behalf and identify those which are genuine, so that they can be paid, and those which are not, so that the culprits can be apprehended. We all know how much money we have spent to follow up people who rustle a few cows here and there. But all the cows the Pokots have taken from the Turkana or vice versa, are not even a faction of the resources which are plundered by the people who have been entrusted with the responsibility to take care of them. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I know that there are my colleagues who would also like to contribute to this Motion. I want to support this Report, but urge that the PAC demands that all the accounts are done up-to-date, by some deadline, so that before we go to the General Election, we know that we are up-to-date in the PAC as well as the Public Investments Committee (PIC) Reports. With those few remarks, I beg to support."
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